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Madagascar’s crisis escalates; president dissolves Parliament while in hiding
Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina dissolved the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, deepening the political crisis in the Indian Ocean nation after a military rebellion led him to flee the country and go into hiding.
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October 15, 2025
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India Champions Disaster Resilience at G20 Summit under PK Mishra’s leadership
PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, has played a pivotal role in shaping and supporting the landmark declaration at the G20 Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Ministerial Meeting in Cape Town, where the Working Group adopted the Ministerial Declaration titled \"Resilience for All: Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction through Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability.
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October 15, 2025
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BJP releases first list of 71 candidates amid political turmoil in Bihar
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its first list of 71 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections on Tuesday, despite the ongoing political turmoil within the NDA over seat-sharing arrangements.
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October 15, 2025
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Zomato to list 2.5 lakh gig jobs yearly on NCS portal
The Ministry of Labour & Employment signed a MoU with Zomato to enhance access to flexible & technology-enabled livelihood opportunities through the National Career Service (NCS) platform.
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October 15, 2025
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Top Maoist Sonu surrenders along with 60 cadres in Maharashtra
Top Maoist leader Mallojula Venugopal Rao alias \"Sonu\" alias \"Bhupathi\", a CPI (Maoist) politburo member, reportedly surrendered in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, though no official statement was issued by the state government.
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October 15, 2025
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Cabo Verde seal historic FIFA World Cup qualification
Cabo Verde have qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time.
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October 15, 2025
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‘We are creating a bridge between authentic Ayurvedic wisdom & today’s fast-paced lives’
She is the fourth generation scion of Desai Foods Pvt Ltd, known for its popular brandMother's Recipe.She has been instrumental for the company’s recently launched wellness-led brand, Hearty Roots, which has already launched across key metros and marks Mother's Recipe’s strategic entry into the Ayurveda-inspired, clean-label food category. It is positioned as India’s first zero-oil, superfood-based pickle brand, made with functional ingredients like Ashwagandha, Moringa, Flax Seeds and Jaggery - designed to resonate with both tradition and modern wellness:This launch is significant not just because of the product innovation, but because it reflects a broader shift within the company - from being a legacy kitchen staple to becoming a future-forward, consumer-first food brand that is actively responding to how India eats today.
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October 15, 2025
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Thought we could have had a better wicket: Gambhir on Kotla wicket
India wrapped up a comfortable 2-O series sweep over the West Indies inside the first hour o the fifth day, but head coach Gautam Gambhir expressed concerns over the quality o the pitch at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here, suggesting i could have offered more for the bowlers.
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October 15, 2025
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Bihar polls: ECI completes first randomisation of EVM-VVPATs for Phase 2
The Election Commission of India has completed the first randomisation of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and voter verifiable paper audit trails (VVPATs) for the second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections.
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October 15, 2025
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Bunker Paradox
Something remarkable is happening in the world of technology's most powerful figures.
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October 15, 2025
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Seat-sharing tensions spark turmoil in Bihar
BJP releases first list of 71 candidates
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October 15, 2025
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The AI Mirage
The euphoria surrounding artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch. Valuations are soaring, capital is flooding in, and the world’s most powerful technology firms are bound together in a web of overlapping investments so intricate that few can tell where genuine demand ends and financial self-dealing begins. It feels exhilarating, and eerily familiar.
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October 15, 2025
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Sanae Takaichi’s PM bid uncertain as opposition parties push tounite
Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of Democratic Party forthe People, has called on other Japanese opposition forces to unite on key policies to pave the way for a change in government as uncertainty grows over whether ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) can remain in power, the Japanese media reported on Tuesday.
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October 15, 2025
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Japan, too, faces opposition to migrants
In July’s House of Councillors election in Japan, parties that are cautious about accepting foreign workers and that advocate for tighter restrictions saw their vote shares increase.
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October 15, 2025
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Rohtak cop found dead, leaves video, 3-page note accusing late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar of graft
Amid the controversy surrounding Haryana Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Y Puran Kumar's alleged suicide in Chandigarh last week, another police officer was found dead on Tuesday, leaving behind a purported three-page “suicide note” and a video in which he levelled corruption allegations against Kumar.
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October 15, 2025
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PM Modi, Mongolia President Khurelsukh Ukhnaameet
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa on Tuesday held delegation-level talks here, further cementing the longstanding friendship between the two nations.
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October 15, 2025
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Russian aerial attack hits a Ukrainian hospital, days before Zelenskyy meets Trump
Russian forces launched powerful glide bombs and drones against Ukraine’s seconclargest city in overnight attacks, hitting a hospital and wounding seven people, an official said Tuesday, as European military aid for Kyiv dropped sharply and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to ask US President Donald Trump for Tomahawk missiles.
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October 15, 2025
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Testing times
Each year, 22 million aspirants apply for one lakh central government jobs, exams with a cruel 0.5 per cent success rate. These aspirants spend their youth chasing a mirage, neither working nor building any skills. If a candidate spends one year, the wastage explodes to 824 crore human-days annually, representing Rs 5.59 lakh crore in foregone economic output
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October 15, 2025
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Google to invest $15 billion in new AI Hub in Vizag
US tech giant Google on Tuesday announced plans to invest $15 billion over the next five years to set up an Artificial Intelligence (AI) hub in Visakhapatnam to enable it to deploy its full AI stack to accelerate Al-driven transformation across India.
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October 15, 2025
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GRAP-I curbs invoked in NCR as Delhi registers 'poor' air quality
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas on Tuesday invoked the 27-point action plan under the antipollution GRAP stageI, as Delhi's average Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 211, falling in the'poor' category.
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October 15, 2025
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Tourism Ministers of States/UTs meet to advance PM Modi's vision oftourism transformation
The tourism ministers of various states have put forward their ideas on the draft frameworks for'Development of 50 tourism destinations' and 'providing performance-linked incentives'.
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October 15, 2025
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Civic polls: Jharkhand High Courtrejects SEC’s plea for three-month extension
The Jharkhand High Court has taken a stern view of the delay in conducting municipal elections and rejected the State Election Commission's request seeking three months' time to hold the polls.
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October 15, 2025
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How lactose regulates the lac repressor
A key feature of the operon model is the idea that genes with metabolically related functions are clustered together so their transcription can be regulated as a single unit.
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October 15, 2025
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Mission Shakti 5.0: UP police eliminate 256 criminals under CM Yogi's leadership
The Uttar Pradesh Police have intensified their operations against crime as part of Mission Shakti 5.0.
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October 15, 2025
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Why rare earth refining is India's most underrated investment opportunity?
India is sitting on one of the world’s most overlooked opportunities in the clean energy and high-tech economy: rare earth refining. Despite holding nearly 8.5 million tonnes of rare earth element reserves, the third-largest globally and around eight percent of the world’ share, India’s production today accounts for less than one percent of global output. This mismatch between potential and performance reveals an investment frontier that is only beginning to be understood.
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October 15, 2025
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Rahul fifty helps India seal 2-0 clean sweep over Windies, Chase finds positives in defeat
K L Rahul's composed unbeaten half-century guided India to a 2-0 series sweep over the West Indies, as the hosts wrapped up the second and final Test inside the first hour on the fifth morning at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Chasing 121, India resumed on 63 for 1 and despite a couple of hiccups, crossed the finish line comfortably to seal a commanding seven-wicket victory.
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October 15, 2025
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Europe’s steel fortress
A steel tariff shock has landed, this time from the European Union. On Oct. 7, the European Commission unveiled a sweeping plan to halve duty-free quotas on steel imports and double the tariff on excess volumes from 25 to 50 percent.
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October 15, 2025
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IREDA records 145 pc spike in loan sanctions, disbursement up 81 pc
The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has posted impressive Q2 FY26 performance, with Minister Pralhad Joshi highlighting that IREDA is fostering sustainable growth and self-reliance in the renewable energy sector, lighting up India’s future and inspiring collective efforts toward a greener and brighter tomorrow, with passion and purpose.
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October 15, 2025
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Agriculture sector holds immense potential in J&K, Omar tells FICCI
J&K CM Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that the agriculture sector in the state holds immense potential and requires focused attention towards value addition to unlock full gamut of business opportunities.
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October 15, 2025
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Game-changing effort in transforming infra planning: Goyal on PM Gati Shakti
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, onits completion of four years praised the PM Gati Shakti initiative calling it a game-changing effort in transforming India’s infrastructure planning.
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